Yeah and not just guns that are smuggled abroad from the US. Most illegal guns in Europe come from former wars, stolen out of abandoned and badly secured depots. The balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. And once the war in Ukraine is over many unused weapons will flow into the European criminal circuit.
The entire Military Industrial Complex is making the world more dangerous even during peace time.
Buckle up because guess what, George W Bush implemented the gun smuggling into Mexico with a plan called “Fast and Furious”
Reminder that as of 2025, the US is the only country with more privately owned guns than people, at 120.5 guns per 100 people… The 2nd highest is the Falkland Islands at 62.1 guns per 100 people.
Do the Falklands count as a country? I’m not sure what the situation is there.
Also, New Zealand is pretty high up on the list.
They’re self-governing, which I guess is enough.
Seriously though, what the fuck is the civilian excuse for guns on the Falklands? The only native natural predator that could hurt the sheep is long extinct. I guess they’re afraid the sheep will have a revolution.
Might be due to the conflicts with Argentina? Honestly not sure.
If the Argentine army lands, drafting the sheep and giving them guns isn’t going to stop an occupation any more than it did before.
Most places, if not all places there’s a war, there are American weapons. Remember all the people coming after the American soldiers in Black Hawk Down, well they used American weapons.
What do you mean? The popular image is of the Somali militias using Soviet-designed weapons. AKs and such
Then their opposition has American weapons.
USA is an arms dealer cosplaying as a country.
This is the plot of Iron Man
It’s by design.
A lot of effort went into it and it’s a lot of effort to maintain such systems. You need PR along with movie studios, politicians on local, country, and global levels, lobbyists, para-gov agencies (like police unions), judges, etc. It’s a business full of people that do what they can to advance it.Not sure if I’d really use the troubles as a defense against the proliferation of personal ownership of firearms…
Kinda hard to claim you’ve been “radicalized” by denying other radicalized individuals the ability to fight off a oppressive foreign government with a long history of genocidal tyranny against your entire ethnicity.
… most of witch regimes were set up and funded (weapons too) by the USA or Russia. Usually they were terrorist groups before forming a formal government. And the problem being that the status quo is usually the most profitable and politically beneficial (gives the mentioned colonisers more direct power over the de fuckto marionette countries).
They do get many from straw purchases here, which is already illegal can get you 10+yr in federal prison.
But also they get a fuckton of full auto guns that are illegal here from the mexican military’s corrupt members, and other sources like china, somehow they get explosives too including south korean grenades have been found which is wild, and the best is Operation Fast & Furious, where the ATF just directly sold them a bunch of AKs “to track” and then surprise! “lost” them. They get em from multiple sources.
Wrong. I don’t know why Jay Hulme feels the need to lie but there is more than one gun store in Mexico.
A quick look at Wikipedia clearly shows that there are actually two gun stores.
That’s 100% more than OP said! Absolutely crazy, how could they do this?
Even easier and faster; a quick look at google maps presents a list, their locations, hours of operation…
The tessreact.
BUSTED
We had to arm the drugs in the War on Drugs to make it a real fight.
Because screenshots of what someone said on social media aren’t journalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Mexico
Mexico has restrictive laws regarding gun possession. There are only two stores in the entire country, DCAM near the capital, and OTCA, in Apodaca, Nuevo León. It also takes months of paperwork to have a chance at purchasing one legally.
So you’re saying it’s easier to get a gun in Mexico than a RTX 5000 GPU in the US
Yeah, but guns are safer, not even a real fire hazard.
You really shouldn’t be spending your money on either
You can get a high point 9mm for a little over $100. Shotguns are not much more expensive.
nah. You should probably buy a gun now if you aren’t a danger to yourself.
EDIT: Assuming you are in the US or its neighbours.
Don’t buy it from a gun store, though.
Eh, if I’m in a situation I need to use my gun, the gun store is either defunct or I don’t care about federal law anymore.
If I was living in the US, I’d definitely stock up on guns and ammo at this point. Not that it’ll help, when the fascists come for you, but at least I wouldn’t go down without a fight.
This is the one reason I’m happy Biden was in office. It gave everyone four more years to prepare. Marginalized communities were some of the heaviest buyers during that time. Small arms have been used to inflict losses on fascists since fascists became a thing. Disarmed groups are substantially more in danger than armed groups.
How many people have you seen killed by a graphics card
Well, the 5090 power connector is trying to catch people’s houses on fire, so it’s dumb to buy one.
just soak it in water
Only for like the 4th generation in a row, so it’s not like they’ve had much time to fix this issue
Are you implying that it’s easy to get an RTX 5000 in Mexico??
Yeah, but since the RTX 5000 doesn’t even exist, it’s no wonder
Something like 85% of guns used in crimes in Canada are smuggled from the US
Sounds to me like someone should build a barrier of some sort to keep all those undesirables from the south out of their country.
Smuggled? The DEA was shipping them direct at one point.
Not literally shipping them, but setting up a sting that never stung. Ironically to stop the flow of illegal guns.
What a quaint scandal compared to what we see on an hourly basis these days.
I love America (maybe less now than in 2023, but still), but one of our great failings has been to ignore Eisenhower when he warned America about the military industrial complex. Most of my generation blames American imperialism on Big Oil, but I think the real roots lie in the MIC.
And ignored Carter when he said we need to turn the heat down and put on sweaters otherwise we will have to make allies with nations that aren’t democratic. Just before he became VP Dick Cheney gave a speech to Halliburton execs saying essentially Caryer was right and now we have to back despots.
Too fast, too furious…
https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/americas/operation-fast-and-furious-fast-facts/index.html
The craziest thing cartels buying guns in America and smuggling them into Mexico isnt that the US government was selling to people they thought were smugglers.
It’s that the people at the gun store are doing the same shit people are doing all over the place.
The used gun market is insane, I know a couple people that constantly buy new guns and sell them less than a year later. They don’t question why some person is willing to buy $200 over new price for a used gun.
And the way the law is structured, that’s in their best interest.
If a random person walks up and asks to buy a gun, you don’t have to ask any other questions as a “private seller” and since you can only get in trouble if you know that person can’t own a gun, the less questions the better.
The “private sale” loophole makes every other gun law just a slight hassle to get around. But no one wants to actually close it.
Edit:
It also incentives those sales.
No gun store will pay as much as someone who can’t buy from a gun store.
So to make sure someone ends up with that can legally have it, the seller loses money.
